Orientales Calientes Quotes

#1. Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.

Thornton Wilder

#2. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#3. I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

Kate Zambreno

#4. The past wasn't dead, nor past. She herself was black, and was explaining the demographic of the Black Belt today by referring to slavery, still a visitable memory because of the persistence of its effects.

Paul Theroux

#5. Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

C.J. Sansom

#6. I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Brian Helgeland

#7. Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.

Rachel Pollack

#8. The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Mary McCarthy

#9. The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.

Blake Ross

#10. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

Matt Groening

#11. The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

John Piper

#12. Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that's really lonely. But that only happens when we weren't really listening. It means we weren't ready to listen yet. Because every time we speak, there is a voice. There is the world that answers back.

Ava Dellaira

#13. One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

Jackie Kennedy

#14. For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.

Ignatius Of Antioch